BenQ, Samsung, and Viewsonic are coming out with 12ms 19" LCD soon if they are not already out. Samsung also claim LCD price will fall about 15-20% in the near feature.

19" LCD runs about 500-600 right now, so you are probably looking at 400-500 for the older model, not sure how the 12ms model will be priced.

Also nVidia is coming out with nForce 4 around Augest/September if you are looking to buy AMD in the far future (late this year/next year). 8 SATA, 3 IDE, 10 USB, Gb ethernet, soundstrom 2.0, raid, and hardware firewall. From what I can gather a 'plain' MB should be cheaper to make since the manufacture doesn't have to buy extra component for onboard sata/raid/sound/ethernet controller.

I would also recommand PCI-E if possible

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All the second generation DX9 cards available now are reference designs and so don't have appreciable differences. You'll have to wait a little while longer if you want a non-reference design.

Supplies are limited on both the ATI and nVidia side, so it's tough to find a good deal. In particular, nVidia's $400 card is hard to find for $400, and not really available for less than that.

Newegg has an eVGA 6800 for $287. I may buy that myself. I'm going to wait and see how it stacks up against the X800 Pro, though. I would like to be able to play some new games at 1600x1200, no AA, a little anisotropic filtering.

To answer Peijen's question, with the introduction of D3 and HL2 there finally is a performance difference between 128MB and 256MB video cards. Of course, you can always crank down the texture quality to make up the difference.

Small update: after months of use, I am running all games on the Gainward 6800 at 1280x1024. The minimum framerates at 1600x1200 were too slow. I'll need to get a new video card before I upgrade to a 1600x1200 LCD.